“Pushed against the window pane,
the nail goes right through me.

do it again, make sure that I’m bleeding.
I know that I’m bleeding, God knows i am bleeding.

pull me down the street then, by the neck.
must i die before you break me?

I believed he was right, I believed breathing was a right,
I must earn the patience, courtship, death; underfoot

you were the king of the hill and I’m the ladybug without wings.

no really its not always this way, we’re usually quite lovely.
Just give me twenty minutes, all I need is twenty minutes.
Just some time to get away; familiarity, sterility, normalcy, redundancy, for me.
next time you run, I run too.

Soothe me. No really, its lovely. Just hold me.
No more kicking, no more screaming, no more crying, no more yelling at me. “

I’ve been scheduled for a conference call without my input on the time for more than 7Ksecs before I usually resume consciousness.  In the past this has usually resulted in disaster for the other involved parties, as I typically can’t resume from standby that early, let alone speak in coherent sentences or form what humans would consider lucid thoughts.  My ideal employer would either be able to work with this better, or be located in Japan.

This article on Code Climber identifies a lot of the most important reasons I and so many others work best at night. There are numerous benefits to working at night:

• There are far less interruptions by email, instant message, and news via RSS
• There is minimal interaction with human species, as they seem to prefer sleeping while Sol illuminates the oppopsite side of their planet
• My best and most productive work requires long periods of concentration and Focus

Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can

Pink Floyd (formed 1965 in Cambridge, United Kingdom) is a British band noted for psychedelic rock and progressive rock music, philosophical lyrics, avant-garde compositions, sonic experimentation, innovative cover art and elaborate live shows. One of rock music’s most successful and influential acts, the group have sold an estimated 73.5 million albums in the U.S., and over 300 million albums worldwide.

We’ve just lost one of the founding members of the most influential bands of all time. Today Richard Wright passed away at age 65 of cancer.

5000 points to anyone who knows the rest of it without googling it.

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

If you cheat, I’ll know. Think about this dishonor you’ll bring your family.

I’m subscribed to a bunch of RSS feeds and I think I finally got this wordpress plugin I wrote on your top left to work for pulling out the items I star for later reading or articles that I think are particularly good.

Subscribe to the RSS

So after working thirteen hours in a row I came home and thought of a handy function to bandaid some legacy code that returns a url with double slashes after the TLD. I realize this is a worse solution than fixing the code in question, but my regex-fu could use work so I though I’d do a little exploring. motel6 sparked my imagination and deserves full credit for my work below. Here’s what I came up with:

<?php
$url = remove_url_slashes('http://www.killallhumans.com//?robots_eating=hobos&passion=361', 'killallhumans');

function remove_url_slashes($url=”,$domain=”) {
if(empty($url))
return false;
if(empty($domain))
$domain = 'killallhumans';
$pattern = "/($domain)(.*?)(\/+)/ie";
return preg_replace($pattern, "'\\1\\2/'", $url);
}
?>

Mosquito Country

Originally uploaded by Maker.

That is all.

Real quick, here’s a little clip about when I’m getting a new phone:

SAN FRANCISCO, June 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple(R) today introduced the new iPhone(TM) 3G, combining all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking that is twice as fast* as the first generation iPhone, built-in GPS for expanded location based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs the hundreds of third party applications already built with the recently released iPhone SDK. In the US the new iPhone 3G is priced at a stunning $199 for the 8GB model, and just $299 for the 16GB model.  (Gizmodo)

Onto something just as important,  ojuice and I got a comment on our screenshots from a while back and it wasn’t spam!